Who honestly cares what Jessica Simpson has to say. Usually people ignore her.

5 years

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6 years

She has no idea where the saying comes from? She doesn't appear to be too sharp.. She ate tuna and believed it could be chicken! I dont think she would offend anyone on purpose!

For those going on about "paddywagon", this term is used frequently in Ireland to describe a police van. As an Irish native living in Ireland whose ancestors are all Irish this term is not offensive, no need for people to be PC.

6 years

"1st Amendment, DEAL WITH IT AND QUIT WHINING!"
Well it's also other people's first amendment right to "whine" about it

6 years

Quit calling everyone and everything racist, and saying that every word and phrase is racist, and racism will eventually fade. These people bringing racism up every 5 minutes are the ignorant people keeping racism alive!!

6 years

1st Amendment, DEAL WITH IT AND QUIT WHINING!

6 years

This is all ridiculous! Everything is racist, and everyone is offended! Get over yourselves, and the petty little crap you let affect you! There are much more substantial things in life to be concerned about than what Jessica Simpson has to say!

I'm going to agree with poster 28 here. Also, that comment that Canadians are just Canadians is untrue. Many people from different ethinic backgrounds hyphenate their cultural identity here too. Most people I know don't have a problem with that because when it all comes down to it, we're all Canadian. We're not expected to just drop our ethnic backgrounds on becoming Canadian though. It's not that big of a deal here.

6 years

@ kalliefornia, the term doesn't refer to the US government giving things to American Indians and taking it back. If it did, then wouldn't it be more fitting to call it US government giver? lol. The term stems from the bartering system that American Indians practiced that was a foreign concept to the Europeans settlers, as many posters before have mentioned.
And I agree with the people who said that just because this is an old phrase doesn't justify the use of it today. There are tons of derogatory phrases and words that are old or even older than this one that we don't use. Unless you are racist or ignorant (which is probably Jessica's case), why would you want to denigrate a culture by using a term that could offend them?

Whoa! All of this hate over "indian giver"? It seems as though if you really break this down it isn't worth all of the nonesense. Was Jessica Simpson intentionally trying to step on the Native American culture? I think we can all agree that she was not. I am of Native American descent...do I think the phrase Indian Giver is going to have any affect on my life? No, it's not going to hurt my career prospects, segregate my kids from others or end me socially.
And one last thing...and please know that I am not saying this to bring the hatred or belittle anyone. If this is a subject you are passionate about (and it seems there are quite a few here on both sides of the argument) - do you really think that you're going to get a point across by being hateful? If someone calls you ignorant, a fool, uneducated and then proceeds to imply or say outright that they are more educated and socially aware than you...how likely are you to open your mind to anything they have to say? I consider myself to be an educated person and quite a few members of my family might be a little over-educated :) - does this make me any better than any of you or mean that I am ALWAYS PC? No. It takes a lot more restraint and intelligence to state your case with compassion and kindness than to respond on pure emotion with hatred.

Whoa! All of this hate over "indian giver"? It seems as though if you really break this down it isn't worth all of the nonesense. Was Jessica Simpson intentionally trying to step on the Native American culture? I think we can all agree that she was not. I am of Native American descent...do I think the phrase Indian Giver is going to have any affect on my life? No, it's not going to hurt my career prospects, segregate my kids from others or end me socially. And one last thing...and please know that I am not saying this to bring the hatred or belittle anyone. If this is a subject you are passionate about (and it seems there are quite a few here on both sides of the argument) - do you really think that you're going to get a point across by being hateful? If someone calls you ignorant, a fool, uneducated and then proceeds to imply or say outright that they are more educated and socially aware than you...how likely are you to open your mind to anything they have to say? I consider myself to be an educated person and quite a few members of my family might be a little over-educated :) - does this make me any better than any of you or mean that I am ALWAYS PC? No. It takes a lot more restraint and intelligence to state your case with compassion and kindness than to respond on pure emotion with hatred.

There was nothing wrong with Simpson's comment. The term "indian giver" i a reference to how the US government kept giving things to the native americans and then going back on their word, and taking things back. Hence indian givers. It's a slight at the US governments past, not native americans.

It is a term stemmed in a hateful racist connotation. She meant no harm but it should not be used. There is a difference between being ignorant and a fool. Children are ignorant of the meaning behind that term. As an adult we know and to continue to use it just like "paddy Wagon","wife beater", "porch monkey" and a whole host of other terms is just foolish and stupid. Learn from mistakes because you never know who is going to hear you say these phrases and get offended. Yes we tend to be too pc here but there is some sense behind thinking before you speak and being considerate of others

Sloane220, i couldn't agree with you more. As far as the people who think there is nothing wrong using racially charged phrases - if it doesn't bother you that you are offending people, it should, at the very least, bother you that you sound uneducated.

@emososays17-what? where the hell did you get the idea that i used the phrases "drink like the irish do" or "paddy wagon"? did you just make that up? whatever, in my personal life, i'm SMART enough to use a modicum of social awareness when i'm speaking and i don't use insensitive phrases mocking the marginalized in this country and i call other people on using language like that too. i've had people try to use that's so gay, that's so lame, etc. with me and i tell them about themselves and how expressions like that just don't come out of a vaccuum. stop making ASSumptions.